Wellness and Christianity
The 21st century religion is "Wellness".
"Before we knew it, the wellness point of view had invaded everything in our lives: Summer-solstice sales are wellness. Yoga in the park is wellness. Yoga at work is wellness. Yoga in Times Square is peak wellness. When people give you namaste hands and bow as a way of saying thank you. The organic produce section of Whole Foods. Whole Foods. Hemp. Oprah. CBD. 'Body work.' Reiki. So is: SoulCycle, açaí, antioxidants, the phrase 'mind-body,' meditation, the mindfulness jar my son brought home from school, kombucha, chai, juice bars, oat milk, almond milk, all the milks from substances that can’t technically be milked, clean anything. 'Living your best life.' 'Living your truth.' Crystals." -- Taffy Brodesser-Akner, "How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million", New York Times, 25 July, 2018
"'It’s intense, man,' she said. She reached behind her to her bookshelf, which held about a dozen blue bottles of something called Real Water, which is not stripped of 'valuable electrons,' which supposedly creates free radicals something something from the body’s cells. 'It’s insane, and then I have to do a lot on the day, and I really don’t like speaking in public, and I have to keep getting up in front of a crowd.'" -- Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Detoxing, cleansing, meditation
"...and I swear to God something called Psychic Vampire Repellent, which is a 'sprayable elixir' that uses 'gem healing' to something something 'bad vibes'..."
"That was the year after G.P. met Elise Loehnen, 38, a former magazine editor who had been ghostwriting for G.P.'s friend, the extremely extreme personal trainer Tracy Anderson, in whose business G.P. is a minority stakeholder. Loehnen wasn't just interested in wellness; she was obsessed with it. Wellness, she argued, isn't just about a spa you're going to or a cleanse you’ve started or a diet you’re on. It’s how local your food is. It’s how the chickens you eat all went to the right schools. It’s the water you drink. It’s the cures you never thought possible. It’s the level of well-being you didn’t even know to ask for."
"Anyone from an acupuncturist to a psychic to an endocrinologist to a psychologist addressed questions that the modern woman couldn’t seem to find answers to: Why am I so unhappy? Why am I so tired? Why am I so fat? Why don’t I want to have sex anymore?"
"...an autoimmune disease at every corner, be it thyroid disease, arthritis or celiac disease; trust them, you have one. Last year, G.P. gave a platform to her friend Shiva Rose, a healer who talked about inserting a jade egg into the vagina, which she says concubines did and which she claimed could help prevent uterine prolapse. This did not go unnoticed! They sold a brush that would help your lymph flow, a salt shampoo that would detoxify your scalp, a water bottle with rose quartz in it that would infuse your water with positive energy."
